Emil meier



(No Model.)

B. MEIER. ATTACHMENT FDR PRINTING PRESSES.

No. 485,704. Patented Nov. 8, 1892.

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EMIL MEIER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ATTACHMENT FOR PRlNTlNG-PRESSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 485,704, dated November 8, 1892.

Application filed Fehrnary23, 1892- Serial No. 422,459. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMIL MEIER, of the city,

. county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and Improved Attachments for PrintingPresses, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to attachments for printing-presses, and more especially to that variety of presses having a movable type-bed and inking-table and in which the inking-table moves beneath angular distribution-rollers which spread the ink upon the table. In machines of this class the distribution-rollers are placed at an angle in the path of the inking-table, and as these rollers are made usually of some comparatively-soft substance the table by coming in contact with one end of the rollers at a time chips and wears away the rollers very quickly.

The object of my invention is to obviate this difliculty by providing an adjustable bar which moves in unison with the table and which first comes in contact with the distribution-rollers, the bar being arranged so that it will at once conform to the angle of the rollers, so as to bear against them throughout theirlength, and the shock of the moving table will thus coine bodily upon the rollers, so that they will not be chipped.

To this end my invention consists in the combination, with an inking-table of the character described, of a bar pivoted on one end of the table and adapted to contact with the distribution-rollers.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a broken perspective view of a printing-press provided with my improved attachment. Fig. 2 is a detail plan view showing the relation of the pivoted bar to the inking-table and the distribution-rollers. Fig. 3 is a detail side elevation of the inking-table, type-bed, and adjustable bar; and Fig. 4 is an enlarged front elevation, partly in section, of the adjustable bar and its support.

In the drawings, 10 is the inking-table of the usual kind, which is connected with the type-bed 11, and these reciprocate in the usual manner in the press 12, which press is of the common kind having the reciprocating typebed and inking-table, as described, and the construction of the press will notbe described, as it forms no part of myinvention. On the free end of the inking-table 10 and on the under side is secured a lug or support 13, which projects outward from the edge of the table, and on this is centrally pivoted a bar 14, which is of the same thickness as the table, so that its upper side will be flush with the table-top, and the bar is pivoted on a bolt 15, the head of which is let into the bar, so as to be flush therewith, and the bolt has a nut 16 at its lower end to prevent its displacement. The inner edges of the bar 14tthat is, the edges next the table-are inclined or tapered from the middle toward the ends, so that the bar may he pivoted close to the table and still have movement enough to conform to the angle of the dist-ribution-rollers 17. These rollers are arranged at opposite angles and in pairs in the press 12 in the usual manner, the rollers being placed in the path of the table 10, so as to press upon its top surface. Above the rollers are the usual riders 18, which prevent them from jumping, and the ink is sup plied to the table by the fountain-roller 19 and the usual ink-fountain 20, arranged at the extreme end of the press. Above the type bed are the usual inking-rollers 21; but these and the parts above described, with the exception of the adjustable bars, form no part of my invention, the several rollers being shown in order to clearly illustrate the application of the bar.

By reference to Fig. 2 it will be seen that when the table 10 advances beneath the distribution-rollers 17, the bar as it touches the rollers will quickly swing horizontally on its pivot, so that it will bear against the rollers throughout its entire length, and this prevents the table from striking the rollers at an angle and thus chipping them.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a printing-press having a reciprocating inking-table and distribution-rollers to contact with the table, the combination, with the table, of a bar pivoted at one edge of the table, so asto contact with the rollers, substantially as shown and described.

2L The combination, with the distributionrollers and the reciprocating table, of a bar ble and pi'qjeeting from its free edge and a pivoted at the edge of the table next the rollbar pivoted to swing horizontally on the sup- IO ers, the said bar having its back edge inclined port substantially as described.

from the middle toward the ends, substan- 5 tially as described. EMIL MEIER.

3. The combination, with the distribution- Witnesses: rollers and the reciprocating" inking-table, of LOUIS WEIF,

a support secured to the under side of the ta- GEORGE GRIEVE. 

